Istanbul: Turkey's official news agency says two ruling party officials serving in district organisations have been shot and killed, and ruling party officials blamed Kurdish militants.

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The Anadolu news agency says Orhan Mercan, a vice president of an AKP branch in the southeastern Diyarbakir province, died on Saturday after being shot near his house. It says Aydin Ahi, who was serving as vice president for a party branch in the eastern province of Van, was killed late Saturday.

AKP officials decried the slayings, which they blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.